Clarion 1964-12-16 Vol 40 No 12

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Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, December 16, 1964
Henry Keynotes AAES;
Discusses Involvement
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Selling trayshas been the business of senators for the past week.
Senate bought 50 trays from the Food Service and sold them to students
for $.25 or traded them for trays taken by students from the dining
hall.
Concert proceeds were donated by the band to the student mis-sionary
project. Band president, Tim Olson, gave the check to Jim
Keim, Religious Committee chairman to put the fund $186 nearer the
$14,000 goal.
Student Project Remains
Slightly Behind Schedule
Bethel will host the American Association of
Evangelical Students (AAES) Midwest Regional Con-vention
January 8-9. The theme of this convention
will be "Christian Commitment and Creative Involve-ment."
The convention begins with registration from 7-
11 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, in Edgren lounge. It will
end with a sum-up luncheon on Saturday noon.
Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of "Christianity
Today," will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Henry is
an ordained Baptist minister and holds a Ph.D.
from Boston University, a Th.D. and an honorary
Litt.D. He is the author or editor of many books;
most recent of which is "Aspects of Christian Social
Ethics."
Dr. Henry has preached in many pulpits and has
traveled internationally with the Billy Graham team.
While a member of various committees and associa-tions,
Dr. Henry holds a position on the board of the
National Association of Evangelicals. His messages
will be the springboard for the discussion groups at
the convention.
The supporting speakers will be Dr. C. Philip
Hinerman, pastor at Park Avenue Methodist in Min-neapolis
and Dr. TimOthy Smith, social historian at
the University of Minnesota. These men along with
Dr. Henry will lead discussion groups to develop the
ideas presented in their messages.
Discussion topics will range in interests from
cultural and social events on campuses to such
things as Chapel exchange programs.
Students from Christian campuses in this region
(AAES members) will attend the convention. Housing
and meals will be provided for
$10.00 per delegate. Bethel stu-dents
who wish to attend are not
required to pay the fee.
The student project for building
a seminary classroom and sending
students to work on mission fields
is proceeding slightly behind sched-ule.
After 12 of a possible 31 offer-ings,
the total giving amounts to
nearly $2,500. This is already be-yond
last year's total, but behind
the pace needed to reach $14,000
by May.
However, unforeseen sources of
giving seem likely to arise, if the
band is an example of student en-thusiasm.
It contributed $186 in
proceeds from the "Pops" concert
to the project.
Meanwhile, preparation is be-ing
made for next summer's pro-ject.
Application forms have gone
to those students who indicated an
interest and these must be return-ed
by Jan. 8. Selection of the sum-mer's
student missionaries will be
announced by Feb. 3.
Seven to ten students will be
chosen depending on the openings
available, fields under considera-tion
and qualified applicants states
Religious Committee Chairman,
Jim Keim. Both college and sem-inary
students are eligible.
Presently a committee headed by
Ben West is evaluating last sum-mer's
work. Its report considers
student and missionary reactions
on the strengths and weaknesses
of last year's program.
With the erection of the walls of
the new seminary buildings, the
Dean Emeritus of George Wil-liams
College in Chicago, Dr. Ar-thur
H. Steinhaus, will be speaker
at the Jan. 11 Bethel convocation.
Steinhaus, who has served ap-pointments
as Fulbright Professor
Festival Choir
Gives Messiah
The Christmas portion of Han-del's
Messiah will be presented by
the Festival Choir at the final
chapel period before Christmas re-cess
on Friday, Dec. 18.
This oratorio was presented last
year and by request is being re-peated
with student soloists. Those
singing solo parts will be: sopranos
Judy Sundquist, LaVon Brauer and
Patti Whalen; altos Mary Stauffer
and Nancy Nelson; tenor Al Haw-ker;
and basses Stan Olsen and
Jack Miller.
Mary Stauffer, organist and
Nancy Nelson, pianist will accom-pany
the choir. Oliver Mogck con-ducts
the performance.
second portion of the student mis-sionary
project is becoming rea-lity.
Steel girders have arrived on
the site and have been put into
place for the classroom building.
Joseph Roche, Indian violinist,
comes to Bethel to present a con-cert
Thursday, Jan. 7 at 8:15 p.m.
in the college auditorium. Violin-ist
Roche is the first person from
India to become a member of a
major United States symphony or-chestra
and the first to receive
Joseph Roche,
Indian Violinist
to Germany and Japan, has also
lectured and done research in 19
countries.
In 1944 he served as Chief of
the Division of Physical Education
and Health Activities in the U.S.
Office of Education and during
the war served as a Civilian Ad-.
viser to the U.S. Navy on matters
of physical fitness and physical re-habilitation.
From 1943-45 Dr. Steinhaus was
President of the American Aca-demy
of Physical Education. He is
the author of several books.
Tentative plans call for Dr.
Steinhaus to speak to the General
Biology class Monday morning and
the Structure and Developments,
class Tuesday on the topic, "What
I've Learned from Animals." Tues-day
at 12 he speaks to the Health
class on "Too Much Health" and
to the faculty on "The Man Past
Forty."
At the morning convocation Jan.
11, Dr. Steinhaus will present
"What Physical Education Can Do
for the Emotional and Spiritual
Aspects of Man's Personality." The
evening convocation will feature
his B.A. and M.A. music degree in
this country.
His program features such num-bers
as "Adagio and Fugue for
Violin Alone" by Bach, "Chants
D'Espagne" by Nin-Kochanski,
"Adagio in E Major" by Mozart
and "Concerto No. 3 in B Minor"
by Saint-Saens. Richard Zgodava
accompanies him at the piano.
Roche came to the United States
in 1953 to attend the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Mass. After completing his studies
in Boston in 1959, he accepted a
contract from Antal Dorati to be-come
a member of the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra.
During the summer season he
performs as a member of the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
under Walter Hendl.
After his first recital in the
United States in 1956 in Provi-dence,
R.I., reviewer Ruth Tripp
wrote of his "beautifully controll-ed
bowing arm and a fine concept
of the power of his instrument;
"Lessons from Physiology for
Coaches and Athletes."
... interpretation which was poe-tic
..." Minneapolis critics gave
him similar reviews after his 1961
recital in the Twin Cities.
In 1962 Roche formed the Metro-politan
String Quartet, drawn from
members of the Minneapolis Sym-phony,
which has been active in
chamber music performances in
the Twin City area.
The Student Personnel Commit-tee
turned down the application
for charter by the Captain's Cabin
last Thursday. After hearing the
Cabin explained by J. David Patter-son
and Joe Masciopinto, the com-mittee
requested to hear students
who do not favor the Cabin. Bill
Madsen, Denny Wall, Jim Keim
and Vern Lewis appeared before
the committee.
In an official statement, the
committee said that its action was
based on he following considera-tions:
"1. The Cabin represents a pro,
liferation of campus groups and
is functionally competitive to
existing groups. The committee
The tentative schedule will be:
Friday
9 a.m.
10 a.m.—Convocation. Henry
11 a.m.—Small discussion groups
12 a.m.—Lunch
1 p.m.—Smith
2 p.m.—Small discussion groups
3 p.m.—Hinerman
4:30 p.m.—Coffee hour
5:30 p.m.—Dinner
8 p.m.—Henry
9:30 p.m.—Coffee hour
Saturday
9-11 a.m.—Business meeting
11:30 a.m.—Luncheon. Henry
feels that the needs that have
sparked the group's action can
be met through existing groups,
2. The proposed constitution is
so loosely constructed as to per-mit
virtually any kind of mem,
bership, control and operation.
3. The tendency of such a club is
toward elitism and devisivism.
4. The actions of the Cabin lead-ership
have demonstrated little
ability to work within the cam-pus
framework."
While denying the Captain's
Cabin charter, the committee ex-pressed
the wish that "the found-ers
and sponsors of the group
would continue their operation
within the framework and under
the Student Life and/or the Social
Committee of the Student Senate."
SPAN Reveals
1966 Openings
The Student Project for Amity
among Nations (SPAN) recently
announced its choice of countries
to which four groups of academi-cally
superior students and their
advisers will travel in the summer
of 1966. The nations are Argen-tina,
Greece, Ethiopia and Indo-nesia.
Students interested in the SPAN
program are encouraged to con-tact
Professor W. H. Peterson,
Bethel's SPAN adviser, or Bill
Swenson, Bethel's 1965 SPANner
to Thailand for more information.
Although applications will be ac-cepted
through mid-March, early
application by honor students with
an interest in world affairs is re-commended.
Former Fulbright Scholar Steinhaus Speaks;
Outlines Benefits of Physical Education
Cultural Committee Features
Violinist Roche's Concert Soon
Faculty Rejects cabin;
Formulates Objections
Wu4 Wee, . .
Wednesday, December 16
Intramural basketball. Fieldhouse. 7 p.m.
Thursday, December 17
Sounding board. Student lounge. 9 P.m.
Friday, December 18
Vacation. 5 p.m.
Saturday, December 19
Dorms close. 5 p.m.
Tuesday, January 5
Classes resume. 8 a.m.
Student Senate. College aud. 7 p.m.
Wednesday, January 6
Basketball. River Falls.
Thursday, January 7 -
Saturday, January 9
AAES convention.
Thursday, January 7
Concert. Roche. College aud. 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 9
Wrestling. Hamline. Fieldhouse. 3:30 p.m.
Basketball. Wahpeton.
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the CLARION Wednesday, December 16, 1964 Olson Doubts Financial Power
Denomination Considers Of Church-Related Colleges
Affirmation, Resources
This next year will be a year of decision for Baptist Gen-eral
Conference members because they must make a decision
almost as important as their decision to expand Bethel to the
extent of about $12 million. They must decide whether or not
Bethel should accept aid from the federal government avail-able
under the Educational Facilities Act.
The decision will be made at next summer's Akron, Ohio
convention, but the Conference must prepare to make that
decision now by considering its historic affirmation of the
principle of separation of church and state and its own re-sources.
If federal grants were to be accepted for Bethel, would
the line between church and state have been crossed? Would
the government be subsidizing the church and subsequently
taking away the freedom of the church? Some answer "Yes,"
and some answer "No." If this question can be answered
both ways, it can hardly be the deciding factor when the
decision is made.
Consideration of the Conference's resources sheds a clearer
light on the decision. Can Bethel exist and improve on Con-ference
giving alone? Past records suggest that the answer
is "No." The T,TFT program is behind schedule. The new in-complete
Seminary complex will leave the school with a large
debt and completion of the original plans would cost hundreds
of thousands more. With this debt it will take a long while
to build up funds for college expansion.
But more troublesome than the expansion expenses are
the current expenses. Bethel ended last year in the red and on
top of this deficit has added staff members and salary raises.
Added income from students cannot fill the gap because the
campus is filled to capacity now and tuition fees are at the
level where they cannot be raised much higher and still be
within the range of Conference youth, most of whom do not
belong to the upper income group.
The Conference has trouble supporting Bethel in its pre-sent
state; how will it support a bigger and better Bethel
in the future? High quality education is expensive and Bethel
can hardly improve without more support than the Confer-ence
is presently giving.
We on the campus want Bethel to expand and improve
to become a real force in the world of higher education. With-out
high quality education Bethel has little reason to exist
because its graduates cannot compete on the level of graduates
from secular institutions, consequently they have difficulty
reaching educated society for Christ.
It appears that the real choice before the Conference is
not whether or not it should accept federal aid for Bethel,
but whether or not it wants Bethel to grow and improve. In
light of the past decision to build a whole new campus for
Bethel, it seems that the Conference is interested in the col-lege's
growth and will consequently accept federal aid —
provided it does not forget about the real question of Bethel's
survival in higher education while considering the question
of separation of church and state.
Letters to the Editor:
Defunct Cabin Fills Campus Need
Dear Editor: sires to have a part in his society
This letter will no doubt be the and an importance.
last apology for the now defunct
A pie divided between four
Captain's Cabin. Do not be mis- people provides ample portions
taken, this is not a letter finding
for all, but when more people
fault with the Student Personnel are added to those dividing the
Committee for their action in this pie the individuals receive less
matter. It is, rather, merely a and less of a, portion. So it is
statement of my own opinions as with this feeling of belonging.
to the need of this organization As the student enrollment in-the
way it was finally presented. creases there is going to be less
The Bethel student body is of a chance for the individual
growing and as it grows the indi- to assert his belonging to Bethel
vidual becomes more and more in- College.
significant with respect to the bulk
Do not misunderstand me at this
of the students. Each persOn de- point. The situation I have describ-
Cabin Can Survive Denial
It is hard for those who have had an active interest in
Captain's Cabin not to be bitterly disappointed over the Stu-dent
Personnel Committee's denial of the charter.
Cabin enthusiasts find it easy to view the committee's
procedure and decision as unjust, but whether it is just or
pot, the decision is made. And Cabin sailors now have the
choice between bitterly dropping the whole idea or maturely
trying to repair the damage with the help of the Social Com-mittee
or the Student Life Council as the Student Personnel
Committee suggested in its denial of the Cabin charter.
Working within the Social Committee would not be im-possible
for the Captain's Cabin. In fact, becoming a part of
the Senate's budget and calendar would be advantageous. The
Cabin can continue to fill the social gap seen by its members
as a part of the Social Committee.
Don't give up the ship mates. The Captain's Cabin isn't
down vet!
AMP
Vietnam ...
Secret planning talks expected
to lead to bombing of Viet Cong
supply lines in Laos began between
U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor
and South Vietnamese Premier
Tran Van Huong.
The Vietnamese government an-nounced
increases in American
military and economic aid and
ed is not necessarily bad or good.
It is simply inevitable.
The tendency then arises for the
individual to initiate smaller in-terest
groups where they can re-capture
this feeling of belonging.
There is a need for the individual
to stand up and say that he is a
member of some group, that he is
important to that group and that
his group is an integral part of
the whole. The Captain's Cabin
was merely one such group.
Many were of the opinion that
the Captain's Cabin was too lib-eral
for the Bethel campus. Per-haps
it was, in as much as it
was new and it deviated some
what from the status quo.
I think that few will deny that
the liberalising influence is in-creasingly
more prevelent in our
Christian lives. I cannot presume
to suggest a means of stopping it
completely, but perhaps a small
concession when the opportunity
presents itself can prolong a major
change when there is little choice.
I would like to say in closing
that the Captain's Cabin did one
thing that no other organization
has been able to do. It involved
those who don't normally partici-pate
in campus functions in an or-ganization
that was designed to
be of benefit to the campus.
Respectfully,
J. David Patterson
said joint plans are being made to
curb Communist infiltration from
North Vietnam.
The trend is up in South Viet-nam—
militarily and politically
the war against the Communists
looks better than at any time
in more than a year.
Sudan ...
Ten were killed and many in-jured
when warfare broke out at
Khartoam airport. Thousands of
Negroes massed there to protest
domination of that East African
nation by its Arab majority.
NATO
President Johnson and British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
opened a two-day conference Dec,
8 with the visiting leader warning
of "urgent problems" and "grow-ing
stresses and strains" within
the Atlantic Alliance.
Russia - UN ...
The Soviet Union has quietly
consented to make a voluntary
payment toward its $52.6 million
debt for the Congo and Middle
East operations, thereby increas-ing
hopes that the financial cri-sis
will end before Christmas.
Congo
Congolese Premier Moise Tsch-ombe
said the rebellion in his
African country has been crush-ed.
"We are in a position today to
announce the end of the revolu-tion
in the Congo," Tschombe told
a news conference.
U.S. Defense Dept....
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc-
Namara rammed head-on into a
scrap with Congress when he said
he would order Army Reserve
units transferred to the National
Guard in a move to save $150 mil-lion
a year by pruning dead wood.
GOP...
Former President Dwight D,
Eisenhower and former Vice Presi-dent
Richard M. Nixon have told
Senator Barry Goldwater that his
hand-picked GOP chairman must
have a mandate not just a major-ity
to stay at the helm of the
partY-lowed
to apply for federal grants under the Educa-tional
Facilities Act to apply on the construction of
certain academic buildings for Bethel College on
the new campus?
Opponents to accepting federal grants are con-vinced
that if the school enters into a government
subsidy program we have planted the kiss of death
on church-state separation.
Without benefit of extended discussion. two ques-tions
should be raised.
How separate is church and state now as far as
Bethel College is concerned? The largest single grant,
property tax exemption, is not to be taken lightly.
During the '30's the National Youth Administration
gave grants to students who worked on college cam-puses.
And during the '40's and '50's the G.I. Bills
were sizeable grants, though indirect.
In recent years the school has entered into
long-term, low interest loan agreements with the
federal government for dormitory erection. Each
involvement must be studied on its own merits.
So too with the H.E.F. Act.
Will the Higher Education Facilities Act destroy
our religious freedom? This is the essential ques-tion.
State-Church relations are subsidiary to this
priamry concern. The provisions
in the H.E.F. Act are explicit.
Care is taken that money can not
be used for chapels, divinity
schools or any facility for sectar-ian
instruction.
Further the Act states: "No de-partment,
agency, officer or em-ployee
of the United States shall,
under the authority of this Act,
exercise any direction, supervision
or control over, or impose any re-quirements
or conditions with re-spect
to the personnel, curriculum,
methods of instruction or admini-stration
of any educational institu-tion."
There seems to be nothing in
this Act that can be construed
as a sinister devise to destroy
religious freedom.
If the Conference is really ser-ious
about protecting the wall of
separation, and decides at the
Akron Conference sessions in June,
1965 to go it alone minus govern-ment
assistance, then there will
have to be more concrete evidence
of its purist position than chest
thumping oratory and flag waving
patriotism.
One look at the proposed opera-tional
budget for the 1965-66
Bethel school year, $1,991,230 is
reason enough to take a good ser-ious
look at the Conference philo-sophy
of fund raising for its lib-eral
arts college.
IMP
by Dr. Virgil Olson
The future existence of Bethel College is at
stake, like it is for many church related colleges in
America. Can Bethel College plan for an expanding
program of high quality liberal arts education with
the present type of denominational financial under-girding?
From the idealist point of view, there should be
no hesitancy in believing that a growing small denom-ination
can support adequately its two schools: Bethel
College and Seminary and Vancouver Bible Institute.
From a practical point of view, it appears that
the Conference bears lightly the mantel of finan-cial
responsibility. The constituency is not deeply
committed to higher education. Note the lagging
response to LIFT and the stumbling support of
the increasing annual budgets of recent years.
Either non-denominational sources for substan-tial
grants must be obtained or otherwise a cut back
of long-range plans must be made which could re-sult
in an inferior, non-competitive scholastic role
in the face of greatly expanding national programs
of education.
The question before the Baptist General Confer-ence
is this: Should the Board of Education be al-
114a-Readell 2,4ede
A deeply rooted custom of Christmas in Minnesota is snow, and
Bethel has its share. The campus is fortunate or perhaps unfortunate
to have an overabundance of this symbol that has become associated
with the Christmas season throughout the world. The CLARION staff
would like to take this opportunity to wish Bethel students a very merry
white Christmas. The next CLARION will appear Jan. 13.
CONFERENCE BAPTIST
EXTENSION CHURCHES
IN THE TWIN CITIES AREA
A Welcome Awaits You At
Northwest (New Hope)
Salem (New Brighton)
Shoreview (Shoreview)
Gethsemane (South St. Paul)
Cedar Grove (South Cedar)
Berean (Burnsville)
Eden Prairie (Eden Prairie)
Telephone John H. Bergeson, Extension Director,
for information or transportation-644-9622
Christmas Cards you won't find elsewhere!
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Elim Baptist Church
685 - 13th Avenue Northeast
Minneapolis
Sunday School-9:45 a.m. College Class
Morning Service—I I:00 a.m.
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30 p.m.
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, Pastor
Mr. Norman McLean, duet. Pastor
Bus transportation at 9:15 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.
Bethel Sends Aid
To Negro Group
Bethel faculty members recently
sent a letter of encouragement and
modest financial support to Negro
church members in Sunnyside,
Miss. Co-ordinator, Dr. Ivan Fahs,
termed faculty co-operation in the
practical mission of concern be-tween
Christian communities "gra-tifying
and pleasing."
The church in Sunnyside receiv-ed
minor damages on the evening
of Nov. 17 when shots were fired
after a church meeting. A Negro
man present fired two shots into
the air hoping to scare off the
men in a car which had circled the
church several times. The car fin-ally
left after scattering Ku Klux
Klan pamphlets.
The Negro gun handler was sub-sequently
arrested and bail was
set at $250. This Negro commun-ity
has a population of 662 people
whose average annual income is
$600 and many of them are depen-dent
on public assistance.
People of the town raised the
money to have him released on
bail, presumably at the expense
of some of their food money. Since
this time five families have had
their welfare funds cut off by
local authorities and civil rights
workers have expressed the fear
that the people in this town are
simply being starved out.
George Winter, correspondent
for a group attempting to co-or-dinate
civil rights organizations,
sent a letter to Dr. Fahs saying
that "FBI men seem more inter-ested
in being buddy-buddy with
the local officials, more interested
investigating us than in helping
bring justice to an end.
"It would be of symbolic value
if you'd send about $10 or $15
down to repair the church. Some-times
a symbol is all we have to
work with."
Dr. Fahs has thus far sent $30
in contributions from faculty mem-bers.
Joe Marcea and Roger Kings-ley
have headed up the handling
of student contributions and have
received $17.
Dear Editor:
That the student body has at
last become aware of the fact that
there is a racial problem is won-derful.
That certain students are
willing to make an effort to bet-ter
inform Bethelites of the real
problems by arranging interracial
contacts, is commendable.
One suggestion ... there seems
to be little need to carefully ar-range
an importation of study spe-cimens.
There are hundreds of
Negroes in our area. There should
be no need to create an artificial
situation.
There is (and has been) an inter-est
in Bethel among Negro young
people. These potential students
have received little encourage-ment.
Possibly some moral (and
financial) support for those who
are interested would be all it
would take to "fill the gap in
GIFT IDEAS
for
Room-mates & Friends
Bethel Boolatilevie
The entire seminary faculty met
with the executive secretaries of
the Baptist General Conference and
the Conference board of trustees
from the Twin Cities area last Wed-nesday
in the first of a series of
theological colloquiums. The sub-ject
of discussion was the inerr-ancy
of the scriptures.
Dean of the Seminary, Gordon
Johnson, had proposed that such
discussion might be profitable be-fore
his inauguration as dean.
After a spontaneous debate on the
Affirmation of Faith and inerr-ancy
of the Scriptures between
Seminary seniors and some con-ference
secretaries occurred when
Bethel's education."
However, these people are not
yearning to be lab samples. They
want to be just another Bethel
student. To be imported for study
would be just another symbol of
discrimination.
Commendable as student partici-pation
is, cannot function effec-tively
without administration sup-port.
Will they be willing to back
us on this project or will they
impede progress with a morbid
preoccupation with such personal
topics as dating plans?
I sincerely hope Bethel can
achieve better racial balance and
the seniors made their annual trip
to Chicago, Dr. Johnson decided
that a colloquium on this topic
would be helpful.
Colloquium discussion centered
around a paper presented by Dr,
Clarence Bass which explained the
distinction between inerrancy, in-spiration
and authority of the
Scriptures.
According to President Carl
Lundquist, no definite conclusions
came out of the discussion except
"to have such discussions more
often." He also reported that no
one expressed the desire to ask
all conference pastors to sign the
Affirmation of Faith when the
that the heirarchy will support this
effort honestly.
Marie Weigum
Thanks Senate
To the Editor:
A great big "Thank you" to the
Senate from students who like to
eat on trays and tray on them too.
This responsible, creative method
of problem-solving is a good recom-mendation
for the Senate.
Thanks again,
Kathy Harvie
Wednesday, December 16, 1964
by Gwen Lemke
"Christmas means festive occas-ions
to the majority," states Greg
Bubullion. "The Armenian Christ-mas
is celebrated on January 6.
Christmas music is played on ra-dio
and television, we attend pri-vate
school programs and go visit-ing
and all sorts of things during
this festive occasion."
The Armenians celebrate private-ly
in their homes, but for the oth-ers,
"it is a strange practice which
they don't comprehend." Greg
says, "The best thing about this
occasion is the presents."
Samuel Bolet from Cuba and
Miriam Mansilla from Guatemala
celebrated the holiday season
quite similarly, and as Bolet ex-presses,
"it is a very, very happy
time, just like here; suddenly
everything switches to the spirit
of Christmas. We don't have
Christmas trees, but we have
some decoration that usually oc-cupies
half of the living room.
This represents a manger scene."
"During the night, a good friend
of the house steals the image of
group considered the application
of the Affirmation.
Very little of the colloquium's
time was devoted to the problem,
presently of concern to Seminary
faculty and students. President
Lundquist merely explained that
a group of Seminary students were
meeting with faculty about a,
stronger devotional emphasis and
a more positive personal stand by
professors when teaching difficult
issues, so that students at gradua-tion
have stronger convictions
than when they entered.
"It was a warm and wholesome
discussion about why we are do-ing
what we are doing," said Presi-dent
Lundquist in summary.
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Jesus and after a while he brings
him back with a new dress," ex-plains
Miss Mansilla. The "three-kings"
take the place of Santa
Clause in the Latin American
Christmas.
When asked about how he
likes the difference in weather,
Sam answered, "I think snow
goes with it. Even in the Cuban
mind, it is related to the Christ-mas
season."
"In Mexico," Isaias Cervantes
explains, "it is quite different from
the United States as for customs,
but the theme is the same." They
have a lot of paper decorations,
but can't always find pine trees,
so often they have "any kind of
Christmas trees," he says.
Ruth Chan explains Christmas
in Hong Kong this way: "Many
celebrate it, but don't know the
real meaning. It is a time for
parties, social activities, relaxa-tion
and catch-up studying for
students to meet their finals in
January." Everyone there puts
up a Christmas tree.
"Since there is not enough room
in the house for a real tree, arti-ficial
trees are used. Cotton is put
on it to represent snow. The Pro-testants
go caroling by car or by
tape recordings. "Many evangelis-tic
meetings are held and tracts
with the real meaning of Christmas
are given out."
"What's most thrilling about
Christmas in Israel is that it is the
Holy Land where it all happened,"
explains Elias Shibly. He doesn't
think it is as interesting as in the
United States and although "it's
an eastern culture, there isn't much
difference. Generally speaking
there is no Christmas except in
Christian groups. It is prominent
in Nazareth because of the Chris-tians
and tourists."
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Riding his opponentis Doug King, the Royal's wrestling team co-captain.
Scene of the action is the Bethel fieldhouse where the wrestler&
hold their home meets. Having been unsuccessful in their first four,
outings, the grapplers will renew the charge against River Falls on
Jan. 6, 1965.
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Morning Worship, 11 a.m.
Evening Service, 7 p.m.
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kro4z,4 o, with Ron Harris
Yogi Berra continues to amaze the world with quips that prove
he is really not an uneducated baseball manager, but a rough-diamond
George Bernard Shaw whose Yogisms will live forever.
For example, when questioned concerning Little League baseball
Yogi says, "Great. It keeps the kids outa the house." One year Yogi said
the Yankees made "too many wrong mistakes." Upon leaving a restaur-ant
recently, Yogi quipped, "No wonder nobody comes to this restaur-ant.
It's so crowded you can't get in."
I trust Bartlett's will give several pages to Berra in their
next outburst. Alphabetically, he would fit in somewhere near Francis
Bacon or Lord Byron.
The Bethel basketball team should fit somewhere between too,
not for their famous words but fine play. Coach Jerry Healy's players
have come a long way since the opener, developing some beautiful
plays and a good stout defense.
In the poorly-refereed contest Friday night, the Royal's were down
by 12 points at one time, but fought back to tie the game, only to
lose in an overtime. Saturday night was a different story as Don Moore
pumped in 42 points and the entire team hustled to defeat Sioux
Falls again.
Look out Stout State! The Bartlett boys of Bethel are performing
Monday night and with Coach Healy doing the editing, a few more
plays may be recorded.
Grapplers Drop Another
As St. Paul College Wins
Page 4 the CLARION Wednesday, December 16, 1964
Royals Drop Close Contest;
Overpower Sioux Falls Foes
The Bethel Royals basketball
team ran headlong into their first
slow-down-type offensive opponent
this year, and were edged 56-55.
Northwestern utilized a spread-out
offense to draw out Coach
Healy's 2-1-2 zone and thus slowed
down the game considerably.
Bethel jumped to a quick 11-8 lead
on a fine pass from Don Moore
to George Palke underneath, a
Dave Bjorklund 12 footer and a
hook shot by Moore.
That was the last time the
Royals had the lead until the
second half, as Northwestern
came back with a 14-11 lead on
Jim Groehout's fine shooting.
With 6:29 remaining in the half,
the Royals switched to a man-to-man
defense and seemed to be
working well, having tied the score
24-24 with a minute left. But
Northwestern turned in some slick
ball handling, scoring six straight
points for a 30-24 lead. Moore tra-veled
to the line with only seconds
left and established the halftime
score of 30-26.
The Royals came out the second
half, immediately a man-to-man
Bethel Bends
To Stout State
The Bethel basketball team drop-ped
its third game of the season
Monday night to a strong Stout
State five, 73 to 60. The front line
of Stout's, which averaged 6'5"
was too much for the aggressive
Royal's zone to contend with, as
time and again they scored on the
baseline. Leading scorers for
Bethel were Jerry Moulton with
20 points, Don Moore with 18 and
George Palke, 14.
Women Lose
Bethel suffered its first defeat
at the hands of a pressing Augs-burg
offense 38-26 on Monday
night. Captain Cindy Heath led
the team with 17 points. She was
followed by Barb Lindman and Jan
Markell with 5 and 4. Augsburg's
physical education majors, who led
all the way, provided Bethel with
its strongest competition of the
season.
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defense and shoved the lead to
34-30 on two jump shots and a free
throw by Rich Nelson.
Northwestern then switched to
playing more inside-ball and
with 8:45 remaining were the
possessors of a big 10 point lead,
47-37. The Royals quickly bounc-ed
back.
Edgar Peterman stole the ball
and scored a three pointer as he
was fouled after the shot. Dick
Robertson snatched a rebound,
flipped in a two pointer, followed
by Jerry Moulton's 12 footer and
then another long jump shot by
Moulton.
Palke put the Royals ahead 48-47
with a jump shot. After a North-western
bucket, Dick Robertson
worked loose underneath and scor-ed,
giving the Royals the lead a-gain,
50-49. The score was then
tied 51-51 at 1:24 and the Royals
decided to play for the last shot.
They missed and the game went
into overtime.
Moore scored two big buckets
to give the St. Paul men a 55-51
lead but the Iowans came within
one point 55-54. They then stole
a Royal bounce pass into the
center and scored with 11 sec-onds
remaining, giving them the
lead, and consequently, the ball
game.
On Saturday night the Royals
downed Sioux Falls as big Don
Moore pumped in 42 points and
Jerry Moulton flipped in 12 to
lead the team.
The Royals jumped to a quick
6-0 lead on shots by Moulton and
Moore, and after that were never
behind.
With 9 minutes remaining, the
lead was stretched to 10 points,
24-14, as the M & M boys continu-ed
to hit. With 6 minutes left in
the half, Palke became the third
Bethel scorer as he hit a 6 footer.
Bethel widened the margin to
41-17 as substitutes poured into
the game, and after the Braves
scored three points, the half ended,
41-20.
The game slowed down midway
through the second half, allowing
Sioux Falls to fall within 12 points,
60-48, but that was as close as
they got as the Royal's substitutes
took over. The final score was 78-
67.
The Bethel Royals wrestling team
hosted St. Paul Bible College Fri-day
and were defeated.
Denny Nyhohn, wrestling in the
123 lb. division, was pinned in the
third period to give St. Paul Bible
the lead 5-0. Bob Baffa jumped to
a quick lead on a takedown, then
threw his opponent on his back,
pinned him, and tied the score
5-5.
Ron Harris, wrestling in the
137 lb. division, lost the take-down,
but gained an escape and
was then reversed for a 4-1 loss.
S.P.B.C. again gained the lead
8-5.
Doug King scored on a take-down,
an escape and another take-down,
to gain a 4-2 victory and
tie the score at 8-8. Don Wilson
gained a takedown, gave up a re-verse
to his opponent before fin-ally
being pinned in the first per-iod,
giving St. Paul Bible the lead
again, 13-8.
John Benson grappling at 167,
again tied the score, 13-13, as he
scored a takedown, flipped his man
over and pinned him in the first
period.
Denny Rossi lost the takedown
attempt, was forced over and
pinned in the first period, giv-ing
the S.P.B.C. lads the lead
18-13.
Leroy Nelson gained an escape
in the second period, put his op-
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to get a pin. He won a 4-0
decision. The Royals lost the match
18-16.
Women Cagers
Win First Two
The Bethel women's basketball
team opened its 1964-1965 season
by winning its first two games.
Last Tuesday they avenged last
year's losses to Northwestern of
Minneapolis by defeating them 21-
18.
Barb Lindman, starting fresh-man
forward, was high scorer with
ten. She was followed by Cindy
Heath with seven. Bethel gained
an early lead and kept it till the
last quarter when Northwestern
gained a one point lead. The fast
action of the final period ended
with Bethel on top.
On Thursday the team traveled
to the College of Saint Catherine
where Eunice Murra coached the
team to a close victory. St. Kate's
led at the end of the first period,
but Bethel came out on top at the
end of the other three. Miss Heath
led scoring with 20.

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Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, December 16, 1964
Henry Keynotes AAES;
Discusses Involvement
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Selling trayshas been the business of senators for the past week.
Senate bought 50 trays from the Food Service and sold them to students
for $.25 or traded them for trays taken by students from the dining
hall.
Concert proceeds were donated by the band to the student mis-sionary
project. Band president, Tim Olson, gave the check to Jim
Keim, Religious Committee chairman to put the fund $186 nearer the
$14,000 goal.
Student Project Remains
Slightly Behind Schedule
Bethel will host the American Association of
Evangelical Students (AAES) Midwest Regional Con-vention
January 8-9. The theme of this convention
will be "Christian Commitment and Creative Involve-ment."
The convention begins with registration from 7-
11 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 7, in Edgren lounge. It will
end with a sum-up luncheon on Saturday noon.
Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of "Christianity
Today," will be the keynote speaker. Dr. Henry is
an ordained Baptist minister and holds a Ph.D.
from Boston University, a Th.D. and an honorary
Litt.D. He is the author or editor of many books;
most recent of which is "Aspects of Christian Social
Ethics."
Dr. Henry has preached in many pulpits and has
traveled internationally with the Billy Graham team.
While a member of various committees and associa-tions,
Dr. Henry holds a position on the board of the
National Association of Evangelicals. His messages
will be the springboard for the discussion groups at
the convention.
The supporting speakers will be Dr. C. Philip
Hinerman, pastor at Park Avenue Methodist in Min-neapolis
and Dr. TimOthy Smith, social historian at
the University of Minnesota. These men along with
Dr. Henry will lead discussion groups to develop the
ideas presented in their messages.
Discussion topics will range in interests from
cultural and social events on campuses to such
things as Chapel exchange programs.
Students from Christian campuses in this region
(AAES members) will attend the convention. Housing
and meals will be provided for
$10.00 per delegate. Bethel stu-dents
who wish to attend are not
required to pay the fee.
The student project for building
a seminary classroom and sending
students to work on mission fields
is proceeding slightly behind sched-ule.
After 12 of a possible 31 offer-ings,
the total giving amounts to
nearly $2,500. This is already be-yond
last year's total, but behind
the pace needed to reach $14,000
by May.
However, unforeseen sources of
giving seem likely to arise, if the
band is an example of student en-thusiasm.
It contributed $186 in
proceeds from the "Pops" concert
to the project.
Meanwhile, preparation is be-ing
made for next summer's pro-ject.
Application forms have gone
to those students who indicated an
interest and these must be return-ed
by Jan. 8. Selection of the sum-mer's
student missionaries will be
announced by Feb. 3.
Seven to ten students will be
chosen depending on the openings
available, fields under considera-tion
and qualified applicants states
Religious Committee Chairman,
Jim Keim. Both college and sem-inary
students are eligible.
Presently a committee headed by
Ben West is evaluating last sum-mer's
work. Its report considers
student and missionary reactions
on the strengths and weaknesses
of last year's program.
With the erection of the walls of
the new seminary buildings, the
Dean Emeritus of George Wil-liams
College in Chicago, Dr. Ar-thur
H. Steinhaus, will be speaker
at the Jan. 11 Bethel convocation.
Steinhaus, who has served ap-pointments
as Fulbright Professor
Festival Choir
Gives Messiah
The Christmas portion of Han-del's
Messiah will be presented by
the Festival Choir at the final
chapel period before Christmas re-cess
on Friday, Dec. 18.
This oratorio was presented last
year and by request is being re-peated
with student soloists. Those
singing solo parts will be: sopranos
Judy Sundquist, LaVon Brauer and
Patti Whalen; altos Mary Stauffer
and Nancy Nelson; tenor Al Haw-ker;
and basses Stan Olsen and
Jack Miller.
Mary Stauffer, organist and
Nancy Nelson, pianist will accom-pany
the choir. Oliver Mogck con-ducts
the performance.
second portion of the student mis-sionary
project is becoming rea-lity.
Steel girders have arrived on
the site and have been put into
place for the classroom building.
Joseph Roche, Indian violinist,
comes to Bethel to present a con-cert
Thursday, Jan. 7 at 8:15 p.m.
in the college auditorium. Violin-ist
Roche is the first person from
India to become a member of a
major United States symphony or-chestra
and the first to receive
Joseph Roche,
Indian Violinist
to Germany and Japan, has also
lectured and done research in 19
countries.
In 1944 he served as Chief of
the Division of Physical Education
and Health Activities in the U.S.
Office of Education and during
the war served as a Civilian Ad-.
viser to the U.S. Navy on matters
of physical fitness and physical re-habilitation.
From 1943-45 Dr. Steinhaus was
President of the American Aca-demy
of Physical Education. He is
the author of several books.
Tentative plans call for Dr.
Steinhaus to speak to the General
Biology class Monday morning and
the Structure and Developments,
class Tuesday on the topic, "What
I've Learned from Animals." Tues-day
at 12 he speaks to the Health
class on "Too Much Health" and
to the faculty on "The Man Past
Forty."
At the morning convocation Jan.
11, Dr. Steinhaus will present
"What Physical Education Can Do
for the Emotional and Spiritual
Aspects of Man's Personality." The
evening convocation will feature
his B.A. and M.A. music degree in
this country.
His program features such num-bers
as "Adagio and Fugue for
Violin Alone" by Bach, "Chants
D'Espagne" by Nin-Kochanski,
"Adagio in E Major" by Mozart
and "Concerto No. 3 in B Minor"
by Saint-Saens. Richard Zgodava
accompanies him at the piano.
Roche came to the United States
in 1953 to attend the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston,
Mass. After completing his studies
in Boston in 1959, he accepted a
contract from Antal Dorati to be-come
a member of the Minneapolis
Symphony Orchestra.
During the summer season he
performs as a member of the
Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
under Walter Hendl.
After his first recital in the
United States in 1956 in Provi-dence,
R.I., reviewer Ruth Tripp
wrote of his "beautifully controll-ed
bowing arm and a fine concept
of the power of his instrument;
"Lessons from Physiology for
Coaches and Athletes."
... interpretation which was poe-tic
..." Minneapolis critics gave
him similar reviews after his 1961
recital in the Twin Cities.
In 1962 Roche formed the Metro-politan
String Quartet, drawn from
members of the Minneapolis Sym-phony,
which has been active in
chamber music performances in
the Twin City area.
The Student Personnel Commit-tee
turned down the application
for charter by the Captain's Cabin
last Thursday. After hearing the
Cabin explained by J. David Patter-son
and Joe Masciopinto, the com-mittee
requested to hear students
who do not favor the Cabin. Bill
Madsen, Denny Wall, Jim Keim
and Vern Lewis appeared before
the committee.
In an official statement, the
committee said that its action was
based on he following considera-tions:
"1. The Cabin represents a pro,
liferation of campus groups and
is functionally competitive to
existing groups. The committee
The tentative schedule will be:
Friday
9 a.m.
10 a.m.—Convocation. Henry
11 a.m.—Small discussion groups
12 a.m.—Lunch
1 p.m.—Smith
2 p.m.—Small discussion groups
3 p.m.—Hinerman
4:30 p.m.—Coffee hour
5:30 p.m.—Dinner
8 p.m.—Henry
9:30 p.m.—Coffee hour
Saturday
9-11 a.m.—Business meeting
11:30 a.m.—Luncheon. Henry
feels that the needs that have
sparked the group's action can
be met through existing groups,
2. The proposed constitution is
so loosely constructed as to per-mit
virtually any kind of mem,
bership, control and operation.
3. The tendency of such a club is
toward elitism and devisivism.
4. The actions of the Cabin lead-ership
have demonstrated little
ability to work within the cam-pus
framework."
While denying the Captain's
Cabin charter, the committee ex-pressed
the wish that "the found-ers
and sponsors of the group
would continue their operation
within the framework and under
the Student Life and/or the Social
Committee of the Student Senate."
SPAN Reveals
1966 Openings
The Student Project for Amity
among Nations (SPAN) recently
announced its choice of countries
to which four groups of academi-cally
superior students and their
advisers will travel in the summer
of 1966. The nations are Argen-tina,
Greece, Ethiopia and Indo-nesia.
Students interested in the SPAN
program are encouraged to con-tact
Professor W. H. Peterson,
Bethel's SPAN adviser, or Bill
Swenson, Bethel's 1965 SPANner
to Thailand for more information.
Although applications will be ac-cepted
through mid-March, early
application by honor students with
an interest in world affairs is re-commended.
Former Fulbright Scholar Steinhaus Speaks;
Outlines Benefits of Physical Education
Cultural Committee Features
Violinist Roche's Concert Soon
Faculty Rejects cabin;
Formulates Objections
Wu4 Wee, . .
Wednesday, December 16
Intramural basketball. Fieldhouse. 7 p.m.
Thursday, December 17
Sounding board. Student lounge. 9 P.m.
Friday, December 18
Vacation. 5 p.m.
Saturday, December 19
Dorms close. 5 p.m.
Tuesday, January 5
Classes resume. 8 a.m.
Student Senate. College aud. 7 p.m.
Wednesday, January 6
Basketball. River Falls.
Thursday, January 7 -
Saturday, January 9
AAES convention.
Thursday, January 7
Concert. Roche. College aud. 8 p.m.
Saturday, January 9
Wrestling. Hamline. Fieldhouse. 3:30 p.m.
Basketball. Wahpeton.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year.
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL
No. 12
Editor
June Erickson
Associate Editor _____ Bill Swenson
Managing Editor
Rick Yonda
News Editor
Layout Editor _________
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Feature Editor
Barbara Rusche
Sports Editor
Ron Harris
Copy Editor
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Business Manager
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Circulation Manager
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
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the CLARION Wednesday, December 16, 1964 Olson Doubts Financial Power
Denomination Considers Of Church-Related Colleges
Affirmation, Resources
This next year will be a year of decision for Baptist Gen-eral
Conference members because they must make a decision
almost as important as their decision to expand Bethel to the
extent of about $12 million. They must decide whether or not
Bethel should accept aid from the federal government avail-able
under the Educational Facilities Act.
The decision will be made at next summer's Akron, Ohio
convention, but the Conference must prepare to make that
decision now by considering its historic affirmation of the
principle of separation of church and state and its own re-sources.
If federal grants were to be accepted for Bethel, would
the line between church and state have been crossed? Would
the government be subsidizing the church and subsequently
taking away the freedom of the church? Some answer "Yes,"
and some answer "No." If this question can be answered
both ways, it can hardly be the deciding factor when the
decision is made.
Consideration of the Conference's resources sheds a clearer
light on the decision. Can Bethel exist and improve on Con-ference
giving alone? Past records suggest that the answer
is "No." The T,TFT program is behind schedule. The new in-complete
Seminary complex will leave the school with a large
debt and completion of the original plans would cost hundreds
of thousands more. With this debt it will take a long while
to build up funds for college expansion.
But more troublesome than the expansion expenses are
the current expenses. Bethel ended last year in the red and on
top of this deficit has added staff members and salary raises.
Added income from students cannot fill the gap because the
campus is filled to capacity now and tuition fees are at the
level where they cannot be raised much higher and still be
within the range of Conference youth, most of whom do not
belong to the upper income group.
The Conference has trouble supporting Bethel in its pre-sent
state; how will it support a bigger and better Bethel
in the future? High quality education is expensive and Bethel
can hardly improve without more support than the Confer-ence
is presently giving.
We on the campus want Bethel to expand and improve
to become a real force in the world of higher education. With-out
high quality education Bethel has little reason to exist
because its graduates cannot compete on the level of graduates
from secular institutions, consequently they have difficulty
reaching educated society for Christ.
It appears that the real choice before the Conference is
not whether or not it should accept federal aid for Bethel,
but whether or not it wants Bethel to grow and improve. In
light of the past decision to build a whole new campus for
Bethel, it seems that the Conference is interested in the col-lege's
growth and will consequently accept federal aid —
provided it does not forget about the real question of Bethel's
survival in higher education while considering the question
of separation of church and state.
Letters to the Editor:
Defunct Cabin Fills Campus Need
Dear Editor: sires to have a part in his society
This letter will no doubt be the and an importance.
last apology for the now defunct
A pie divided between four
Captain's Cabin. Do not be mis- people provides ample portions
taken, this is not a letter finding
for all, but when more people
fault with the Student Personnel are added to those dividing the
Committee for their action in this pie the individuals receive less
matter. It is, rather, merely a and less of a, portion. So it is
statement of my own opinions as with this feeling of belonging.
to the need of this organization As the student enrollment in-the
way it was finally presented. creases there is going to be less
The Bethel student body is of a chance for the individual
growing and as it grows the indi- to assert his belonging to Bethel
vidual becomes more and more in- College.
significant with respect to the bulk
Do not misunderstand me at this
of the students. Each persOn de- point. The situation I have describ-
Cabin Can Survive Denial
It is hard for those who have had an active interest in
Captain's Cabin not to be bitterly disappointed over the Stu-dent
Personnel Committee's denial of the charter.
Cabin enthusiasts find it easy to view the committee's
procedure and decision as unjust, but whether it is just or
pot, the decision is made. And Cabin sailors now have the
choice between bitterly dropping the whole idea or maturely
trying to repair the damage with the help of the Social Com-mittee
or the Student Life Council as the Student Personnel
Committee suggested in its denial of the Cabin charter.
Working within the Social Committee would not be im-possible
for the Captain's Cabin. In fact, becoming a part of
the Senate's budget and calendar would be advantageous. The
Cabin can continue to fill the social gap seen by its members
as a part of the Social Committee.
Don't give up the ship mates. The Captain's Cabin isn't
down vet!
AMP
Vietnam ...
Secret planning talks expected
to lead to bombing of Viet Cong
supply lines in Laos began between
U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor
and South Vietnamese Premier
Tran Van Huong.
The Vietnamese government an-nounced
increases in American
military and economic aid and
ed is not necessarily bad or good.
It is simply inevitable.
The tendency then arises for the
individual to initiate smaller in-terest
groups where they can re-capture
this feeling of belonging.
There is a need for the individual
to stand up and say that he is a
member of some group, that he is
important to that group and that
his group is an integral part of
the whole. The Captain's Cabin
was merely one such group.
Many were of the opinion that
the Captain's Cabin was too lib-eral
for the Bethel campus. Per-haps
it was, in as much as it
was new and it deviated some
what from the status quo.
I think that few will deny that
the liberalising influence is in-creasingly
more prevelent in our
Christian lives. I cannot presume
to suggest a means of stopping it
completely, but perhaps a small
concession when the opportunity
presents itself can prolong a major
change when there is little choice.
I would like to say in closing
that the Captain's Cabin did one
thing that no other organization
has been able to do. It involved
those who don't normally partici-pate
in campus functions in an or-ganization
that was designed to
be of benefit to the campus.
Respectfully,
J. David Patterson
said joint plans are being made to
curb Communist infiltration from
North Vietnam.
The trend is up in South Viet-nam—
militarily and politically
the war against the Communists
looks better than at any time
in more than a year.
Sudan ...
Ten were killed and many in-jured
when warfare broke out at
Khartoam airport. Thousands of
Negroes massed there to protest
domination of that East African
nation by its Arab majority.
NATO
President Johnson and British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
opened a two-day conference Dec,
8 with the visiting leader warning
of "urgent problems" and "grow-ing
stresses and strains" within
the Atlantic Alliance.
Russia - UN ...
The Soviet Union has quietly
consented to make a voluntary
payment toward its $52.6 million
debt for the Congo and Middle
East operations, thereby increas-ing
hopes that the financial cri-sis
will end before Christmas.
Congo
Congolese Premier Moise Tsch-ombe
said the rebellion in his
African country has been crush-ed.
"We are in a position today to
announce the end of the revolu-tion
in the Congo," Tschombe told
a news conference.
U.S. Defense Dept....
Defense Secretary Robert S. Mc-
Namara rammed head-on into a
scrap with Congress when he said
he would order Army Reserve
units transferred to the National
Guard in a move to save $150 mil-lion
a year by pruning dead wood.
GOP...
Former President Dwight D,
Eisenhower and former Vice Presi-dent
Richard M. Nixon have told
Senator Barry Goldwater that his
hand-picked GOP chairman must
have a mandate not just a major-ity
to stay at the helm of the
partY-lowed
to apply for federal grants under the Educa-tional
Facilities Act to apply on the construction of
certain academic buildings for Bethel College on
the new campus?
Opponents to accepting federal grants are con-vinced
that if the school enters into a government
subsidy program we have planted the kiss of death
on church-state separation.
Without benefit of extended discussion. two ques-tions
should be raised.
How separate is church and state now as far as
Bethel College is concerned? The largest single grant,
property tax exemption, is not to be taken lightly.
During the '30's the National Youth Administration
gave grants to students who worked on college cam-puses.
And during the '40's and '50's the G.I. Bills
were sizeable grants, though indirect.
In recent years the school has entered into
long-term, low interest loan agreements with the
federal government for dormitory erection. Each
involvement must be studied on its own merits.
So too with the H.E.F. Act.
Will the Higher Education Facilities Act destroy
our religious freedom? This is the essential ques-tion.
State-Church relations are subsidiary to this
priamry concern. The provisions
in the H.E.F. Act are explicit.
Care is taken that money can not
be used for chapels, divinity
schools or any facility for sectar-ian
instruction.
Further the Act states: "No de-partment,
agency, officer or em-ployee
of the United States shall,
under the authority of this Act,
exercise any direction, supervision
or control over, or impose any re-quirements
or conditions with re-spect
to the personnel, curriculum,
methods of instruction or admini-stration
of any educational institu-tion."
There seems to be nothing in
this Act that can be construed
as a sinister devise to destroy
religious freedom.
If the Conference is really ser-ious
about protecting the wall of
separation, and decides at the
Akron Conference sessions in June,
1965 to go it alone minus govern-ment
assistance, then there will
have to be more concrete evidence
of its purist position than chest
thumping oratory and flag waving
patriotism.
One look at the proposed opera-tional
budget for the 1965-66
Bethel school year, $1,991,230 is
reason enough to take a good ser-ious
look at the Conference philo-sophy
of fund raising for its lib-eral
arts college.
IMP
by Dr. Virgil Olson
The future existence of Bethel College is at
stake, like it is for many church related colleges in
America. Can Bethel College plan for an expanding
program of high quality liberal arts education with
the present type of denominational financial under-girding?
From the idealist point of view, there should be
no hesitancy in believing that a growing small denom-ination
can support adequately its two schools: Bethel
College and Seminary and Vancouver Bible Institute.
From a practical point of view, it appears that
the Conference bears lightly the mantel of finan-cial
responsibility. The constituency is not deeply
committed to higher education. Note the lagging
response to LIFT and the stumbling support of
the increasing annual budgets of recent years.
Either non-denominational sources for substan-tial
grants must be obtained or otherwise a cut back
of long-range plans must be made which could re-sult
in an inferior, non-competitive scholastic role
in the face of greatly expanding national programs
of education.
The question before the Baptist General Confer-ence
is this: Should the Board of Education be al-
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A deeply rooted custom of Christmas in Minnesota is snow, and
Bethel has its share. The campus is fortunate or perhaps unfortunate
to have an overabundance of this symbol that has become associated
with the Christmas season throughout the world. The CLARION staff
would like to take this opportunity to wish Bethel students a very merry
white Christmas. The next CLARION will appear Jan. 13.
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Bethel Sends Aid
To Negro Group
Bethel faculty members recently
sent a letter of encouragement and
modest financial support to Negro
church members in Sunnyside,
Miss. Co-ordinator, Dr. Ivan Fahs,
termed faculty co-operation in the
practical mission of concern be-tween
Christian communities "gra-tifying
and pleasing."
The church in Sunnyside receiv-ed
minor damages on the evening
of Nov. 17 when shots were fired
after a church meeting. A Negro
man present fired two shots into
the air hoping to scare off the
men in a car which had circled the
church several times. The car fin-ally
left after scattering Ku Klux
Klan pamphlets.
The Negro gun handler was sub-sequently
arrested and bail was
set at $250. This Negro commun-ity
has a population of 662 people
whose average annual income is
$600 and many of them are depen-dent
on public assistance.
People of the town raised the
money to have him released on
bail, presumably at the expense
of some of their food money. Since
this time five families have had
their welfare funds cut off by
local authorities and civil rights
workers have expressed the fear
that the people in this town are
simply being starved out.
George Winter, correspondent
for a group attempting to co-or-dinate
civil rights organizations,
sent a letter to Dr. Fahs saying
that "FBI men seem more inter-ested
in being buddy-buddy with
the local officials, more interested
investigating us than in helping
bring justice to an end.
"It would be of symbolic value
if you'd send about $10 or $15
down to repair the church. Some-times
a symbol is all we have to
work with."
Dr. Fahs has thus far sent $30
in contributions from faculty mem-bers.
Joe Marcea and Roger Kings-ley
have headed up the handling
of student contributions and have
received $17.
Dear Editor:
That the student body has at
last become aware of the fact that
there is a racial problem is won-derful.
That certain students are
willing to make an effort to bet-ter
inform Bethelites of the real
problems by arranging interracial
contacts, is commendable.
One suggestion ... there seems
to be little need to carefully ar-range
an importation of study spe-cimens.
There are hundreds of
Negroes in our area. There should
be no need to create an artificial
situation.
There is (and has been) an inter-est
in Bethel among Negro young
people. These potential students
have received little encourage-ment.
Possibly some moral (and
financial) support for those who
are interested would be all it
would take to "fill the gap in
GIFT IDEAS
for
Room-mates & Friends
Bethel Boolatilevie
The entire seminary faculty met
with the executive secretaries of
the Baptist General Conference and
the Conference board of trustees
from the Twin Cities area last Wed-nesday
in the first of a series of
theological colloquiums. The sub-ject
of discussion was the inerr-ancy
of the scriptures.
Dean of the Seminary, Gordon
Johnson, had proposed that such
discussion might be profitable be-fore
his inauguration as dean.
After a spontaneous debate on the
Affirmation of Faith and inerr-ancy
of the Scriptures between
Seminary seniors and some con-ference
secretaries occurred when
Bethel's education."
However, these people are not
yearning to be lab samples. They
want to be just another Bethel
student. To be imported for study
would be just another symbol of
discrimination.
Commendable as student partici-pation
is, cannot function effec-tively
without administration sup-port.
Will they be willing to back
us on this project or will they
impede progress with a morbid
preoccupation with such personal
topics as dating plans?
I sincerely hope Bethel can
achieve better racial balance and
the seniors made their annual trip
to Chicago, Dr. Johnson decided
that a colloquium on this topic
would be helpful.
Colloquium discussion centered
around a paper presented by Dr,
Clarence Bass which explained the
distinction between inerrancy, in-spiration
and authority of the
Scriptures.
According to President Carl
Lundquist, no definite conclusions
came out of the discussion except
"to have such discussions more
often." He also reported that no
one expressed the desire to ask
all conference pastors to sign the
Affirmation of Faith when the
that the heirarchy will support this
effort honestly.
Marie Weigum
Thanks Senate
To the Editor:
A great big "Thank you" to the
Senate from students who like to
eat on trays and tray on them too.
This responsible, creative method
of problem-solving is a good recom-mendation
for the Senate.
Thanks again,
Kathy Harvie
Wednesday, December 16, 1964
by Gwen Lemke
"Christmas means festive occas-ions
to the majority," states Greg
Bubullion. "The Armenian Christ-mas
is celebrated on January 6.
Christmas music is played on ra-dio
and television, we attend pri-vate
school programs and go visit-ing
and all sorts of things during
this festive occasion."
The Armenians celebrate private-ly
in their homes, but for the oth-ers,
"it is a strange practice which
they don't comprehend." Greg
says, "The best thing about this
occasion is the presents."
Samuel Bolet from Cuba and
Miriam Mansilla from Guatemala
celebrated the holiday season
quite similarly, and as Bolet ex-presses,
"it is a very, very happy
time, just like here; suddenly
everything switches to the spirit
of Christmas. We don't have
Christmas trees, but we have
some decoration that usually oc-cupies
half of the living room.
This represents a manger scene."
"During the night, a good friend
of the house steals the image of
group considered the application
of the Affirmation.
Very little of the colloquium's
time was devoted to the problem,
presently of concern to Seminary
faculty and students. President
Lundquist merely explained that
a group of Seminary students were
meeting with faculty about a,
stronger devotional emphasis and
a more positive personal stand by
professors when teaching difficult
issues, so that students at gradua-tion
have stronger convictions
than when they entered.
"It was a warm and wholesome
discussion about why we are do-ing
what we are doing," said Presi-dent
Lundquist in summary.
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Jesus and after a while he brings
him back with a new dress," ex-plains
Miss Mansilla. The "three-kings"
take the place of Santa
Clause in the Latin American
Christmas.
When asked about how he
likes the difference in weather,
Sam answered, "I think snow
goes with it. Even in the Cuban
mind, it is related to the Christ-mas
season."
"In Mexico," Isaias Cervantes
explains, "it is quite different from
the United States as for customs,
but the theme is the same." They
have a lot of paper decorations,
but can't always find pine trees,
so often they have "any kind of
Christmas trees," he says.
Ruth Chan explains Christmas
in Hong Kong this way: "Many
celebrate it, but don't know the
real meaning. It is a time for
parties, social activities, relaxa-tion
and catch-up studying for
students to meet their finals in
January." Everyone there puts
up a Christmas tree.
"Since there is not enough room
in the house for a real tree, arti-ficial
trees are used. Cotton is put
on it to represent snow. The Pro-testants
go caroling by car or by
tape recordings. "Many evangelis-tic
meetings are held and tracts
with the real meaning of Christmas
are given out."
"What's most thrilling about
Christmas in Israel is that it is the
Holy Land where it all happened,"
explains Elias Shibly. He doesn't
think it is as interesting as in the
United States and although "it's
an eastern culture, there isn't much
difference. Generally speaking
there is no Christmas except in
Christian groups. It is prominent
in Nazareth because of the Chris-tians
and tourists."
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Faculty, Conference Secretaries Hold
Colloquium on Inerrancy of Scripture
Foreign Students Share
Christmas Traditions
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Riding his opponentis Doug King, the Royal's wrestling team co-captain.
Scene of the action is the Bethel fieldhouse where the wrestler&
hold their home meets. Having been unsuccessful in their first four,
outings, the grapplers will renew the charge against River Falls on
Jan. 6, 1965.
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Yogi Berra continues to amaze the world with quips that prove
he is really not an uneducated baseball manager, but a rough-diamond
George Bernard Shaw whose Yogisms will live forever.
For example, when questioned concerning Little League baseball
Yogi says, "Great. It keeps the kids outa the house." One year Yogi said
the Yankees made "too many wrong mistakes." Upon leaving a restaur-ant
recently, Yogi quipped, "No wonder nobody comes to this restaur-ant.
It's so crowded you can't get in."
I trust Bartlett's will give several pages to Berra in their
next outburst. Alphabetically, he would fit in somewhere near Francis
Bacon or Lord Byron.
The Bethel basketball team should fit somewhere between too,
not for their famous words but fine play. Coach Jerry Healy's players
have come a long way since the opener, developing some beautiful
plays and a good stout defense.
In the poorly-refereed contest Friday night, the Royal's were down
by 12 points at one time, but fought back to tie the game, only to
lose in an overtime. Saturday night was a different story as Don Moore
pumped in 42 points and the entire team hustled to defeat Sioux
Falls again.
Look out Stout State! The Bartlett boys of Bethel are performing
Monday night and with Coach Healy doing the editing, a few more
plays may be recorded.
Grapplers Drop Another
As St. Paul College Wins
Page 4 the CLARION Wednesday, December 16, 1964
Royals Drop Close Contest;
Overpower Sioux Falls Foes
The Bethel Royals basketball
team ran headlong into their first
slow-down-type offensive opponent
this year, and were edged 56-55.
Northwestern utilized a spread-out
offense to draw out Coach
Healy's 2-1-2 zone and thus slowed
down the game considerably.
Bethel jumped to a quick 11-8 lead
on a fine pass from Don Moore
to George Palke underneath, a
Dave Bjorklund 12 footer and a
hook shot by Moore.
That was the last time the
Royals had the lead until the
second half, as Northwestern
came back with a 14-11 lead on
Jim Groehout's fine shooting.
With 6:29 remaining in the half,
the Royals switched to a man-to-man
defense and seemed to be
working well, having tied the score
24-24 with a minute left. But
Northwestern turned in some slick
ball handling, scoring six straight
points for a 30-24 lead. Moore tra-veled
to the line with only seconds
left and established the halftime
score of 30-26.
The Royals came out the second
half, immediately a man-to-man
Bethel Bends
To Stout State
The Bethel basketball team drop-ped
its third game of the season
Monday night to a strong Stout
State five, 73 to 60. The front line
of Stout's, which averaged 6'5"
was too much for the aggressive
Royal's zone to contend with, as
time and again they scored on the
baseline. Leading scorers for
Bethel were Jerry Moulton with
20 points, Don Moore with 18 and
George Palke, 14.
Women Lose
Bethel suffered its first defeat
at the hands of a pressing Augs-burg
offense 38-26 on Monday
night. Captain Cindy Heath led
the team with 17 points. She was
followed by Barb Lindman and Jan
Markell with 5 and 4. Augsburg's
physical education majors, who led
all the way, provided Bethel with
its strongest competition of the
season.
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defense and shoved the lead to
34-30 on two jump shots and a free
throw by Rich Nelson.
Northwestern then switched to
playing more inside-ball and
with 8:45 remaining were the
possessors of a big 10 point lead,
47-37. The Royals quickly bounc-ed
back.
Edgar Peterman stole the ball
and scored a three pointer as he
was fouled after the shot. Dick
Robertson snatched a rebound,
flipped in a two pointer, followed
by Jerry Moulton's 12 footer and
then another long jump shot by
Moulton.
Palke put the Royals ahead 48-47
with a jump shot. After a North-western
bucket, Dick Robertson
worked loose underneath and scor-ed,
giving the Royals the lead a-gain,
50-49. The score was then
tied 51-51 at 1:24 and the Royals
decided to play for the last shot.
They missed and the game went
into overtime.
Moore scored two big buckets
to give the St. Paul men a 55-51
lead but the Iowans came within
one point 55-54. They then stole
a Royal bounce pass into the
center and scored with 11 sec-onds
remaining, giving them the
lead, and consequently, the ball
game.
On Saturday night the Royals
downed Sioux Falls as big Don
Moore pumped in 42 points and
Jerry Moulton flipped in 12 to
lead the team.
The Royals jumped to a quick
6-0 lead on shots by Moulton and
Moore, and after that were never
behind.
With 9 minutes remaining, the
lead was stretched to 10 points,
24-14, as the M & M boys continu-ed
to hit. With 6 minutes left in
the half, Palke became the third
Bethel scorer as he hit a 6 footer.
Bethel widened the margin to
41-17 as substitutes poured into
the game, and after the Braves
scored three points, the half ended,
41-20.
The game slowed down midway
through the second half, allowing
Sioux Falls to fall within 12 points,
60-48, but that was as close as
they got as the Royal's substitutes
took over. The final score was 78-
67.
The Bethel Royals wrestling team
hosted St. Paul Bible College Fri-day
and were defeated.
Denny Nyhohn, wrestling in the
123 lb. division, was pinned in the
third period to give St. Paul Bible
the lead 5-0. Bob Baffa jumped to
a quick lead on a takedown, then
threw his opponent on his back,
pinned him, and tied the score
5-5.
Ron Harris, wrestling in the
137 lb. division, lost the take-down,
but gained an escape and
was then reversed for a 4-1 loss.
S.P.B.C. again gained the lead
8-5.
Doug King scored on a take-down,
an escape and another take-down,
to gain a 4-2 victory and
tie the score at 8-8. Don Wilson
gained a takedown, gave up a re-verse
to his opponent before fin-ally
being pinned in the first per-iod,
giving St. Paul Bible the lead
again, 13-8.
John Benson grappling at 167,
again tied the score, 13-13, as he
scored a takedown, flipped his man
over and pinned him in the first
period.
Denny Rossi lost the takedown
attempt, was forced over and
pinned in the first period, giv-ing
the S.P.B.C. lads the lead
18-13.
Leroy Nelson gained an escape
in the second period, put his op-
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ponent on his back, but was un-able
to get a pin. He won a 4-0
decision. The Royals lost the match
18-16.
Women Cagers
Win First Two
The Bethel women's basketball
team opened its 1964-1965 season
by winning its first two games.
Last Tuesday they avenged last
year's losses to Northwestern of
Minneapolis by defeating them 21-
18.
Barb Lindman, starting fresh-man
forward, was high scorer with
ten. She was followed by Cindy
Heath with seven. Bethel gained
an early lead and kept it till the
last quarter when Northwestern
gained a one point lead. The fast
action of the final period ended
with Bethel on top.
On Thursday the team traveled
to the College of Saint Catherine
where Eunice Murra coached the
team to a close victory. St. Kate's
led at the end of the first period,
but Bethel came out on top at the
end of the other three. Miss Heath
led scoring with 20.